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Kusumoto Ine

1827 - 1903

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Kusumoto Ine (楠本 イネ, 31 May 1827 – 27 August 1903; born Shiimoto Ine 失本 稲) was a Japanese physician. She was the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan. She was the daughter of Kusumoto Taki, who was a courtesan from Nagasaki; and the German physician Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked on Dejima, an island foreigners were restricted to during Japan's long period of seclusion from the world. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kusumoto Ine has received more than 152,275 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Kusumoto Ine is the 411th most popular physician (down from 402nd in 2019), the 900th most popular biography from Japan (down from 858th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Japanese Physician.

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  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kusumoto Ine ranks 411 out of 726. Before her are Paul Julius Möbius, Marcus Elieser Bloch, William Stewart Halsted, Alfonso López Trujillo, Paul Neumann, and René Favaloro. After her are Adrien Proust, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Luigi Carlo Farini, Shinobu Ishihara, and Harvey Cushing.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Kusumoto Ine ranks 41. Before her are Prince Francis, Count of Trapani, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Charles Wolf, Pierre Cuypers, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, and Amédée Courbet. After her are Pierre Tirard, Henri Ernest Baillon, Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Nakahama Manjirō, Nikolay Beketov, and Jacques-Louis Soret. Among people deceased in 1903, Kusumoto Ine ranks 44. Before her are Luigi Cremona, Malwida von Meysenbug, Augusta Holmès, Harriet Lane, Emily Warren Roebling, and William Ernest Henley. After her are Adrien Proust, Ozaki Kōyō, Tang Jingsong, Karl Gegenbaur, Auguste Kerckhoffs, and George Gissing.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 900 out of 6,245. Before her are Takeo Arishima (1878), Yoji Yamada (1931), Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Sadako Ogata (1927), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), and Keiko Abe (1937). After her are Masaki Yokotani (1952), Tetsurō Tamba (1922), Kirin Kiki (1943), Aritatsu Ogi (1942), Ken Shimura (1950), and Ichiro Suzuki (1973).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Japan

Among physicians born in Japan, Kusumoto Ine ranks 7. Before her are Shirō Ishii (1892), Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853), Tasuku Honjo (1942), Hakaru Hashimoto (1881), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), and Hiraga Gennai (1728). After her are Shinobu Ishihara (1879), Kiyoshi Shiga (1871), Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Sunao Tawara (1873), and Yoshioka Yayoi (1871).

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